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Re: [prophet2000] Obligatory Newbie stupid question here..

2011-01-15 by Jon Carroll

having had experience with this before...

watch how often you rewrite HD disks when you do this, they may start to 
bleed through and corrpt your data

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Swayne" <me@...>
To: <prophet2000@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [prophet2000] Obligatory Newbie stupid question here..


>I use the 1.4 meg disks and put tape over the density hole. They work
> just fine.
>
> On 1/14/2011 12:17 AM, John wrote:
>> OK I just found this Prophet 2000 and it had no discs with it! It does 
>> have the new rev and the 8 voice outs! I'm happy about that. Now I want 
>> to test the disc drive to see if it can save sounds.
>>
>> I'm starting to read up on the Prophet 2000 and it appears that you need 
>> an archaic 3.5" Double sided single density 720K disc. Is that true? 
>> Where do you get them? I just read a topic regarding a replacement drive 
>> that turns the disc drive into a card reader or something.. What do I 
>> need to do to make sure everything works? I have downloaded the manual 
>> from the analoghell.com page. That was very helpful.
>>
>> In a nutshell, glad to join up with this group, I'm a drummer and 
>> synthesist who has a few older analog synth toys including a Simmons 
>> SDS-8 set, a Minimoog, and a Roland SH-1 and Juno 60. Looking forward to 
>> learning about this interesting machine, even if I'm late to the party!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>
>

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